Species of the mite genus Protzia Piersig, 1896 are diverse and sometimes highly abundant freshwater mites. Here, we provide COI barcodes for five species (Protzia rugosa, P. rotunda, P. halberti, P. cabardinica, P. longiacetabulata) and use them for species delimitation analyses accompanied with morphological comparisons. As a result, we resurrected the species P. cabardinica (Sokolow, 1940). Based on morphology only, we describe three new species, P. kyrgyzicasp. nov. and P. tienshanensissp. nov., from Kyrgyzstan and P. iranicasp. nov. from southern Iran. Furthermore, we describe the male of P. longiacetabulata from Turkey, which was not known previously.
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12 July 2021
Molecular DNA barcoding of the water mite genus Protzia Persig, 1896 with a description of three new species and the unknown male of P. longiacetabulata (Acari, Hydrachnidia)
Vladimir Pešić,
Harry Smit,
Pinar Gülle,
Miroslawa Dabert
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Systematic and Applied Acarology
Vol. 26 • No. 7
July 2021
Vol. 26 • No. 7
July 2021
Acari
DNA barcodes
Iran
Kyrgyzstan
Montenegro
new species
Turkey